BOUILLABAISSE
#2, 1992

31A Waterloo St.
New Hope PA, 18938

72 pp., $8.00

An "international
literary magazine [of] Beat and Post Beat... writings,"
combining two formerly separate magazines, COKEFISH
and ALPHA BEAT SOUP. This issue is jampacked full
of delightful, complex and stimulating works: Joy Walsh,
Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Gerald Locklin, Robert Weir,
Judson Crews, and Robert Howington are just a few of
the large number of authors represented. Fine poets
of today and yesterday barnstorm unalloyed truth-telling
and yea' saying in a neo-beat tradition of unexcelled
richness--complex, bold, and often warped. "Today
I saw the end of the world in a friendly wave."
Paul Beston chants. "...a Guthrie with Grammar
skills. Traversing the U.S./ Drink and puke. Drink
and puke." D.P. Funkhouser relates in alive poetic
leaps. And, we can't forget the artwork by Dan Nielsen
and Belinda Subraman. BOUILLABAISSE is creative emancipation,
broad and angry, vivid and bleeding, shadowed by a
previous generations greatness of aesthetic preference,
by choice, echoing Jack and Neil, giving us Buk and
Allen.--R.R. Lee Etzwiler